我有一件事想跟您打听打听。
1.  Wǒ yǒu yíjiàn shi xiǎng gēn       I have something I would like to
    nín dǎting dǎting.                ask you about.

    听说您那边新来了一位方先生；他的名字
    我忘记了。
    Tīngshuō nín nàbian xīn láile     I have heard that you recently had
    yíwèi Fāng Xiānsheng; tāde        a Mr. Fang join you. I have
    míngzi wǒ wàngji le.              forgotten his given name.

    不错，方德明是上个礼拜派到我们这里
    来的。
2.  Bú cuò, Fāng Démíng shi shàngge   That’s right. Fang Deming was sent
    líbài pài dào wǒmen zhèli         over here last week.
    láide.

    怎么？你认识他吗？
    Zěnme? Nǐ rènshi ta ma?           Why? Do you know him?

    我是加州大学毕业的。
3.  Wǒ shi Jiāzhōu Dàxué bìyède.      I graduated from the University of
                                      California.
    你能不能马上到我办公室来？
4.  Nǐ néng bu néng mǎshàng dào wo    Can you come to my office right
    bàngōngshì lái?                   away?

    没问题。差不多半个钟头就到。
    Méi wèntí. Chàbuduō bànge         No problem. I’ll be there in about
    zhōngtóu jiù dào.                 half an hour.



ADDITIONAL REQUIRED VOCABULARY
(not presented on C-l and P-1 tapes)


5.  jìde                  记得         to remember

6.  rènde                 认得         to recognize, to know (alternate
                                      word for rènshi)
7.  rènshi zì             认识字            to know how to read (literally, “to
                                      recognize characters”)
8.  wàng                  忘          to forget (alternate word for
                                      wàngji, especially in the sense of
                                      forgetting to DO something)

9.  wánquán               完全          completely

10. xiǎngqilai            想起来        to think of, to remember

11. zuǒyòu                左右          approximately